The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 341 Avery's POV The drive home took hours, but | hardly noticed any of it. | remember the rain starting somewhere around the second hour, fat drops hitting the windscreen faster and faster. | remember stopping for gas at some point and sitting in the car afterward with my hands on the wheel and my forehead dropped against it for about thirty seconds before | made myself keep going. Finally, | pulled into the driveway at just past three in the morning.

My mother was still awake, sitting in the kitchen in her robe with a cup of tea gone cold in front of her and a bandage wrapped around her forearm. She stood the moment | came through the door "He's not back," she said. "| know." | dropped my bag. "How bad is the bite?" "It's fine. It's not deep." She held up her arm. "Avery, I'm so sorry. It happened so fast. He was just sitting at the table eating his dinner and then he started shifting out of nowhere. Then he attacked me and ran off." ---- "Did you call the police?" Her face fell.

"I did, but they told me that it would have to be twenty-four hours until they start a missing person search." "What?" | breathed. "He's ten! That makes no sense for a kid his age!" "I know." My mother passed her hands over her face. "They said that given his track record with the school, he's likely just throwing a tantrum and will return." My jaw clenched. | couldn't believe it. My son had been missing for hours and the human police wouldn't do anything because he already had a record as a "troublemaker". "rm sorry, Avery," my mother said softly.

the small park at the end of the road. | walked four blocks in every direction with my hood up and the rain coming down hard ---- and my throat getting raw from calling his name into the dark. Then

small and contained where he could just wait it out. Suddenly, | knew exactly

that curved at the bottom-because you couldn't see into it from the outside and he could sit in there and look out at the other kids without being seen. Iran the whole way. Just as | suspected, Bjorn was in the tunnel slide. | almost missed him. The whole park was empty and dark and the rain was coming down hard enough that the sound of it drowned

a faint, dark shape at the curve of the tunnel, and | crouched ---- down at the opening A small, dark-furred pup looked back at me with miserable eyes. "Hey," | said. "There you are." He whimpered softly and scooched further into the slide. He was shivering badly. Even from here | could see that his fur was completely soaked through. "Come here," | said, opening my arms. "Come on. It's just me." He